ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE

[Aur0nd]

Describe the bug

let's assume that we want to type ls -lha ~/Desktop
if I type the whole command then everything works as expected, but if I type "ls -lh" and then accept the suggestion, everything after "ls -lh" is going to have the suggestions color (Greyed out or whatever color I choose).

ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE='fg=4'

Desktop

MacOS Sonoma

[Goncharo]

Yup same thing here, if anyone has a workaround that'd be great

[hectorhuertas]

Also happens on Arch

[Hacksore]

I have this set in my .zshrc:

export ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE="fg=8"

This is what happens to me in neovim+tmux:

This is what happens when using only tmux

I'm not sure if this issue is related but it's really hard to use the plugin 😢.

[alifhughes]

setting export ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE="fg=#f1d687" in my ~/.zshrc worked for me, it is a similar colour to the default.

[ivanjermakov]

I had the same problem with

ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE="fg=#aaa"

It works with full color hex

ZSH_AUTOSUGGEST_HIGHLIGHT_STYLE="fg=#aaaaaa"

[patrick96]

Problem seems to be that when fg=7 (or anything below 8, at least in my terminal) is added to region_highlight (which is doing the highlighting), it is implicitly replaced by the color name. When undoing the highlighting, this plugin searches for fg=7 exactly to replace it, which then fails.

It's likely more robust to use the memo property for this.
EDIT: memo seems to be a ZSH 5.9 feature (the latest version at the time of writing), so not sure whether it makes sense to bump the version requirement to 5.9 for this